Anatomy of Choice by Fred Grooms
Author:Fred Grooms
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: EDUCATION/Decision-Making & Problem Solving;EDU008000;decisions;choices;students;parents;educators;teachers;leadership;values;personality;character
ISBN: 9780991462834
Publisher: Barnabas Consulting, Inc.
Published: 2015-01-15T16:00:00+00:00
The Six-Step Decision Making Process
Define the situation, problem, or option
Identify the available solutions/alternatives
Evaluate the identified alternatives
Make a decision
Implement the decision
Evaluate the decision.
Decision making is both a science and an art. It’s a science because decision making can have very specific quantifiable results. Any corporation will tell you that they have to have a decision-making process in place or the operation can easily come to a halt. The same is true in education; I’m sure your school and district follow a process similar to the one above. There must be a plan in place to assist students in creating class schedules, and the process has quantifiable results for the staff, teachers and students.
Decision making is also an art. I’m sure you know someone who just seems to have a knack for making decisions and making them well. Others of us can’t even decide what to have for dinner. No matter your skill level at making decisions, you are faced with the process on a daily basis.
Here is a simple example most of us can relate to:
You arrive at school and go to the teachers’ lounge to get your cup of coffee with three packs of sugar. You discover your choice of three packs of sugar is not available. Now you’re faced with a problem needing an innovative choice and you enter the decision making process. (Sounds a little like the Twilight Zone.) Your available solutions are sugar substitutes or plain strong coffee. Time to evaluate alternatives. You think sugar substitutes are bad for you and you don’t typically use them, but you like your coffee sweet. Now you have three choices: use the substitute, drink the coffee strong, or go without. You decide to go without because you have committed to not using sugar substitutes. The decision is implemented by walking out of the lounge minus coffee. As the morning progresses, you begin to evaluate your decision not to drink coffee. Your colleagues start asking why you’re so grumpy and you wonder why you have a headache. Maybe you should have had that cup of coffee?
Let’s take a closer look at the types of decisions everyone encounters. There are three primary categories.
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